In center locations, by which we mean areas of a population that are urbanized and gathered, and from which all others are dependent (we will define dependency), certain characteristics benefit and others serve as a detriment. The two primary characteristics that flourish in such a location are, first, conception: the idea itself, the originality of the proposition, especially if we are creating something from the idea—production, and so forth. Secondly, the way in which things transfer in real time between people—specific people and systems to people; the transfer itself.
It might seem that a conceptual idea, the originality of an idea, is what becomes exchanged, but that is not the true marker of what is exchangeable. As we know, branding and marketing create the framework to enable succession between two entities without the regular work that allows for a succession to occur. It is the smoothing of that exchange. When something is not marketable, it is not lacking ideation, and it is not lacking substance or performance, for that matter; it is simply lacking the ability to attain that exchange in an easy manner, in a way that does not require each individual to invest originality toward the succession of that idea.
A useful way to view it is through the relationship between the conceptual idea and what is exchangeable, between the primary and the outcome: the conceptual idea initiates any process of transfer, while the ease with which that transfer occurs serves as the final act, the ultimate exemplification, before the transfer is completed. The last point in one’s purchase is the exchange itself, but specifically how swiftly it moves within that exchange. Any aspect that is difficult, or an impediment to the exchange, becomes a detestable aspect that disrupts the exchange and, by definition, disrupts the entire encapsulation of the details of that transfer.
If one is in a negotiation and there is hesitation in the transfer, all that has been implied in the negotiation becomes wavering at that moment. In one sense, it becomes cheap; in another sense, it becomes a whole new composition when the transfer finally takes place, because of the deviating factors that caused the lack of exchange. Thus, the ease of exchange is, in some way, the final act that precedes the exchange, allowing it to remain congruent with the person who is about to receive it.
Now, the reason the conceptual idea is paramount in these central urbanized localities is because it begins based on the complex society that endeavored the origin of that conceptual idea. One could come up with an idea in any location; that is not the primary complexity. It is only from the individual becoming habituated in the sequence of what is the uppermost crust of society, upon which all is dependent, that the conceptual idea becomes a derivative. It is a production of that society. It subordinates the originality of all conceptual creations to the society in which the individual has been embedded, which finally exemplifies the idea.
We could identify the strands in each idea that reach back into the society from which that person has derived themselves. So the origin is the society, and its production is the conceptual idea. All conceptual ideas that are outside of that process are not considered conceptual ideas through which it traverses; they are halted by the fact that other conceptual ideas have this lineage, which will overcome these smaller conceptual ideas—not that they are without purpose, but that they will not be considered primary conceptual ideas.
If we look at any successful corporate endeavor, we will find that it is based on a conceptual idea that comes from an individual or group that has been habituated, at one point or another, within those ideas. These, then, are the two pillars of what is best served in these localities: the primary, meaning the conceptual idea and its originality based on the indebtedness to society at its uppermost level, and the second, the ease of exchange.
Whether or not it is based on that original idea, it does not need to be based on a conceptual footprint. It is possible that a conceptual idea built outside has the ease of transfer from within. For example, technology, which is mostly developed by individuals who have been habituated outside of these localities. But because of the ease with which it transfers, whether to the individual or through individuals, that aspect overcomes the lack of its primary conceptual origin.
So it is those two things. Now, they are usually contradictory. What is without a primary conceptual idea requires the necessity of ease of access in these localities, because it does not naturally succeed from one to the other. The opposite may also be true: what has ease of access is not necessarily what is naturally of ease of access. For example, nourishment, food, and other things may not correlate in the same way. But at least in the other direction, what lacks a primary conceptual idea requires ease of access, which these localities successfully become the habitat for developing.
Philosophy of the Center of Civilization
Exploring Human Identity, Society, and the Intersection of Philosophy and Reality